Accession number
PML 145850.49
Creator
Guidi, Raffaello, active 1585-1615, engraver.
Published
[Rome? : s.n., ca. 1596]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Numbered "3" at bottom, center, with two columns of text in the lower margin, each two lines "Bacche pater, ... pectora curis."
Unsigned copy of an engraving originally created in 1596 by Jan Saenredam after Goltzius, possibly a copy made by Raphael (Raffaello) Guidi in Rome, as recorded in Hollstein.
Number 3 in a series of 3 engravings of Ceres, Venus and Cupid and Bacchus, originally engraved by Saenredam after Goltzius, being personifications of food, love, and wine.
Mounted as item 49 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Numbered "3" at bottom, center, with two columns of text in the lower margin, each two lines "Bacche pater, ... pectora curis."
Unsigned copy of an engraving originally created in 1596 by Jan Saenredam after Goltzius, possibly a copy made by Raphael (Raffaello) Guidi in Rome, as recorded in Hollstein.
Number 3 in a series of 3 engravings of Ceres, Venus and Cupid and Bacchus, originally engraved by Saenredam after Goltzius, being personifications of food, love, and wine.
Mounted as item 49 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 410 x 313 mm; sheet: 455 x 343 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Bacchus, whole-length, holding bunches of grapes, accompanied by a young satyr at right, with three men, drink enthusiasts, kneeling before him to pay homage at left.
Classification
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